FOS forum subscribers,
Yesterday's _Chronicle of Higher Education_ carried a story about the
threat to PubScience from the House Appropriations Committee and a lobbyist
organization representing commercial publishers like Elsevier. The basic
facts are in today's issue of the newsletter, but I didn't know about the
_Chronicle_ story and therefore didn't mention it. The _Chronicle_
helpfully includes a link to the House committee report explaining why it
recommends defunding PubScience.

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<font size=3>FOS forum subscribers,<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Yesterday's _Chronicle of
Higher Education_ carried a story about the threat to PubScience from the
House Appropriations Committee and a lobbyist organization representing
commercial publishers like Elsevier. The basic facts are in today's
issue of the newsletter, but I didn't know about the _Chronicle_ story
and therefore didn't mention it. The _Chronicle_ helpfully includes
a link to the House committee report explaining why it recommends
defunding PubScience.<br><br>
Andrea Foster's _Chronicle_ story<br>
<a href="http://chronicle.com/daily/2001/07/2001070202t.htm" eudora="autourl">http://chronicle.com/daily/2001/07/2001070202t.htm</a><br><br>
House report<br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/cp107/hr112.txt" eudora="autourl">ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/cp107/hr112.txt</a><br>
(This file is long. Let it load at least halfway and then search
for "pubscience".)<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Peter<br><br>
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